Affirms our Christian nation
Dear editor:
The full- page Hobby Lobby ad in the July 4 edition of The Sentinel- Record couldn’t have been clearer in pointing out that America was founded on Christianity and is acknowledged as a Christian nation, even by a Supreme Court ruling of 1892. We are not a theocracy, but a unique Christian- based republic. The numerous quotations in the ad from former presidents, the Founding Fathers, Congress and the Supreme Court justices are reminders of why ours has been the greatest nation in the history of mankind — because its citizens allowed God to lead in its earlier development.
The Founding Fathers crafted a delicate and unprecedented balance — a near- perfect blend of faith and government — that produced this great nation. Today, we seem determined to disrupt that balance and sell our souls to government.
I was particularly moved by the ad’s quote from the first chief justice of the Supreme Court, John Jay: “The Bible is the best of all books, for it is the word of God and teaches us the way to be happy in this world and in the next. Continue, therefore, to read it and to regulate your life by its precepts.”
What a difference in that quote and the ruling just handed down by our present Supreme Court that struck down the Defense of Marriage Act and supported gay marriage. This ruling, along with many other ungodly and unbiblical rulings and orders coming out of Washington, D. C., has been accompanied by our country’s moral decay, violence, corruption, loss of global influence, and a generally stressed out and unhappy society.
As I listened to Lee Greenwood and watched the fireworks at Spa Blast, and while reading my Bible on the Fourth, I was convinced that there is still hope for America, but only if we return to the Christian nation our earlier leaders and families believed in, fought for and died for. Our present government is leading us in the opposite direction, so we, the people, must make the correction by vote and civil involvement assuming it’s not already too late. Terry Thompson
Hot Springs